Stripping back Handel’s Messiah
Sam Allchurch, AD of Sydney Chamber Choir, discusses staging the Messiah with chamber forces similar to those that Handel had at his disposal.
March 3, 2020
Review: Fidelio (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)
A rousing and triumphantly optimistic experience.
March 2, 2020
Day One at the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival
Ben Wilkie spends a day at the inaugural Bendigo Chamber Music Festival – and is mightily impressed by the programming and musicianship.
February 7, 2020
Review: Dvořák’s Requiem (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)
In Brett Weymark and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Dvořák’s rarely performed Requiem has found convincing advocates.
September 23, 2019
Review: The Children’s Bach (Canberra International Music Festival)
The inclusion of Andrew Schultz's opera at CIMF was an inspired stroke.
May 11, 2019
Review: St John Passion (Canberra International Music Festival)
A shaky start transforms into an evening of very fine music-making.
May 7, 2019
Review: Handel’s Messiah (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Does this treasured Christmas tradition need a little more TLC?
December 17, 2018
Review: Sacrifice (The Flowers of War, Christopher Latham)
Intriguing arrangements of music from the battlefields of World War I.
October 2, 2018
Review: L’Enfance du Christ (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Sir Andrew Davis breaks a nearly 50-year drought and brings MSO back to some beautiful Berlioz.
June 16, 2018
Review: The Dream of Gerontius (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)
A heavenly accounting of Elgar's oratorio.
October 20, 2017
Review: The Healers (The Flowers of War)
This "pocket opera" is musically admirable but has yet to achieve its full potential.
October 15, 2017
Anna McMichael on Tyalgum Music Festival 2017
Camerata, the Lyrebird trio, Andrew Goodwin and Louise King are just some of the artists coming to the festival this year. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
August 23, 2017
Review: The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera, Victorian Opera)
Anna Dowsley stuns as Lucretia in Kip Williams' deconstructed Britten.
August 20, 2017